The power of face-to-face interaction is relevant in the retail space as well.
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Many new businesses and start-ups are Internet-based, requiring little to no face-to-face interaction.
"Many of us have a lot of trouble with face to face interaction and are also extremely isolated, " Baggs says.
While in non-urgent cases the system is slick and convenient, it does cut out the face-to-face interaction between patient and nurse.
Eighty-eight percent of respondents in our study reported that people are less polite on social media than they would be in a face-to-face interaction.
But, he said, communication systems, including video conferencing and internet collaboration, that allow employees to realistically simulate face-to-face interaction, are already on the market.
"The notes distract me from the face-to-face interaction, " he says.
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You want to move pure transactions to the Internet, use online communication for information sharing and routine communication, and reserve face-to-face interaction for the activities that add the most value.
King, who admits she struggles with technology, said that she prefers face to face interaction but she appreciates the fact that Skype lets her talk to her son who is living in Asia.
In other words, you can think of a city as a technology for lowering the costs of face-to-face interaction in precisely the same way that the Internet is a technology for lowering the cost of exchanging information.
Our research on online daters shows that they spend five hours per week searching through profiles and another seven hours writing and responding to e-mails, all for a payoff of less than two hours of real-life face-to-face interaction.
Tall buildings, walkable neighborhoods, and a good transit system reduce the average cost of face-to-face interaction in exactly the same way that steam ships and low tariffs reduced the average costs of shipping goods to the other side of the world.
One potential remedy is to create a face-to-virtual-face interaction with a helpful, friendly looking, online sales assistant in the hope that, seeing a human-like figure who responds in a human manner, the customer will forge a relationship with the online business.
Research has shown that face-to-face interaction with seasoned entrepreneurs is key to the effective training of budding ones, and the US has a wealth of highly successful entrepreneurs, many of them originally from developing countries, who can help universities train students from developing countries.
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With so much communication via email these days, it can be hard to pull the trigger and initiate a face-to-face conversation when you sense that an online interaction is becoming too heated or simply too difficult to do well online.
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We found that ever so simple little feature added a greater sense of interaction with the phone, plus -- let's face it -- it's just a ton of fun to do.
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